Love Mrs FDR! I got another one last fall but it didn't make it to bloom, another one that was severely impacted by our weather. It is such a perfect flower, isn't it? Never ever seems to have a petal out of place....
That NOID has been in place for at least 6 years. The blooms have always been fairly large but they were enormous this spring, stood out even more since there were so many that didn't make it to bloom. This is the first time the blooms were too heavy for the stems, too--normally stands up really well. They're so bunched up in the photo because I put a peony ring on them after they started opening to get them off of the ground.
Already looking forward to next spring, hoping it'll be a little nicer to my plants than this one was.....It's been 3 or 4 years since we've had a fairly moderate one so I'm thinking it's time!
